☘️Shamrock Emoji
Generally, the shamrock emoji means good luck. People use it to send positive wishes or show support.
The ☘️ emoji is a shamrock.
- Unicode
- U+2618 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :shamrock:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ☘️ Shamrock emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Shamrock emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+2618. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Shamrock emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :shamrock:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+2618.
How to type the ☘️ Shamrock emoji
No picker to hand? The shamrock can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Shamrock emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the shamrock as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Shamrock emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shamrock for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with ☘️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What ☘️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What ☘️ means in other countries
Firmly tied to Ireland and St. Patrick’s Day, with a legend attaching it to Christian teaching about the Trinity.
National emblem — legend says St. Patrick used its three leaves to explain the Holy Trinity.
Mostly just reads as “luck” or a nod to Irish heritage, no deeper meaning expected.
Before you send it: Great for St. Patrick’s Day or luck-themed messages; it won’t confuse anyone outside that context either.
What ☘️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+2618, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the ☘️ Shamrock emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Shamrock was approved as U+2618 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so ☘️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.